Paul Graham has written a great new essay called Founder Mode, which argues, in summary that great founders have hired great executives and it’s not worked.
pg summarized it as "hire good people and give them room to do their jobs." I think that good/great distinction might matter a lot here. Jobs seems to have hired the best when he could and listened to them. A lot of great people came out of Apple. Has Airbnb had any remarkable alumni? None come to mind for me but I could be mistaken.
Absolutely - in the conversation about leadership people tend to forget that employees and future leaders value agency. Thanks for the reminder
pg summarized it as "hire good people and give them room to do their jobs." I think that good/great distinction might matter a lot here. Jobs seems to have hired the best when he could and listened to them. A lot of great people came out of Apple. Has Airbnb had any remarkable alumni? None come to mind for me but I could be mistaken.